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Linux.com: LWCE: Another Perspective

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"What can one say about close to 20,000 Linux geeks in one
city at one place, with hundreds of exhibitors giving out free
swag? Some might call it frightening, but I found it to be
liberating. Where else can one simply walk the hallways and
hear snippets of conversations on the latest 2.4 pre-test kernel,
or whether FreeBSD's TCP/IP stack was still better than
Linux's?"

"I think throughout most of the conference I was in a state of
stupor. I didn't say much, but just sat back to listen and observe
everything that was happening. My favorite activity was to just
cruise through the booths, watching to see which of the booth
people were sales droids and which were hackers that got dragged
along."

"You can spot the hackers, because often they will be sitting
away in the corner typing away at a laptop, or tweaking some of the
displays. You can talk to the sales-droids all day, and come away
with a regurgitated press release, or you can walk up to the
hackers and immediately jump into what is really going on with the
product."